The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-10
CAREFULLY CONCEALED.
Four Bombs Struggled into Lingg's
Cell by a Box with False Bottom.
The Filling Exploded and Found to be
the Strongest Kind of Dynamite.
Extra Precautions Being Taken About
the Criminal Court.
Gov. Oglesby the Recipient of Threat
ing Epistles.

furnish Lingg with the bombs which
were discovered in his cell Yesterday
was evidently carefully thought out by
some of his co-partners in chine on the
outside. Several days ago fancy soap
box was brought to the jail and just in
the heat of the excitement. The Off
Gals say they cannot remember who de-
livered it. They may know who it was,
but if they do they will not say so until
| they have made some arrests. The box
was harmless looking affair and it was
handled by the deputy in the rough
manner in which the officials usually
do those things. A hasty examination
| disclosed the fact that to all appearan-
ces it contained nothing more than a
few delicacies for which even such a
human tiger as Lingg has an appetite.
Had the police and deputies
lying around loose in such close
proximity they would not have
felt so easy, but they were in ignorance
of any danger and they would proba-
bly, have continued so had it not been
for the raid on Lingg's cell. 1t was
then that the Insignificant looking soap
box was found to have a false bottom
and it was underneath it four bombs
had been struggled into the Jail.
In regard to yesterdays dis
jail, and Lingg, Judge Gary
says: ''Lingg is generally looked
| upon as the most desperate of the con-
demned men, and undoubtedly he in
tended to blow up the building and kill
as many people as possible. The fact
that he had armed himself with four of
the deadly weapons would seem to in
| dictate that he was determined to do as
much damage as he could. / suppose
| this will tend to alarm the people and
| will create most decided sensation.
| am not worrying over my prospects.
1 expect to live awhile yet, any how.
One of my lady neighbors is afraid her
windows will be broken when my house
is blown up. feel sorry for her and
shall try to hold down my house in
order to save her windows. l hate to
have my friends suffer on my account.
LINGG NERVOUS, YET DEFIANT.
CHICAGO, Nov. Louis Lingg was
| defiant and sullen this morning. He
put on his oldest suit of clothes, pair
| of gray corduroy trousers and black
| Jacket, put his foot upon the little iron
| cot and began to read a paper. His
| cell is on the lower tier and looks out
upon the examining cage. Reporters
may observe him at a distance of eight
| feet. Lingg was restless, and every
few moments he would jerk his head
around and stare through the grated
door with a wild look. Presently he
got up, planted himself in front of the
cell door, thrust his hands into his
pockets, and looked straight before
him upon the contracted field of his
vision. He saw nothing but a cluster
of reporters and suspicious muscular
bailiffs. He was nervous. He would
lean again the wall, sit down on the
edge of the cot, get up, put his elbows
on the cross bars of his cell and rest
his face on his hands. His favorite
attitude was to stand firmly erect. fold
his arms over his broad chest and gaze
out bristling and ferOciOus. None of
the seven were let out of their cells
this morning, and Jailor FOlze says
they won't be to-day. Mrs. Schwab,
Mrs. Engel and Mrs. Parsons came to
could do was to call out GOOD" morn
ing" and send up some papers. No
packages of any sort were allowed to
90 in. Nina Van Zandt was there.
GOOD morning." she called out to
Spies. GOOD morning" he returned.
and that was the end of
the dialogue between them. She wrote
up to Spies. All mail was broken and
examined this morning for the first
time since this imprisonment.
kilograms were torn open and read.
All private communication with their
friends is stopped, and will continue to
be until the day of execution, IL that
comes. Captain Black and Moses Sole
mon came to the jail at 10 O'Clock.
Black had only stepped into the Office,
. private room and talked earnestly to
him. Black then talked with each of
his clients at their cell doors. Twill the
finding of these bombs in Lingg's cell
change any of the plans of defense. Mr..
Solomon?' mo, we will go right
ahead with the petition, and ask Glenn
ency for Lingg and go to Springfield
, Tuesday as already arranged"
'tIAM DIsGUsTED,"
said Captain Bonfeld lat the cow
ardice of men, who, although
prominent, have no strength OF
t mind and who knock each Other
+ down in the effort to get to the front
and sign petitions through fear that
their property WILDE lost to them
in case of a hanging, and it only causel
: people to sign petitions faster. tel
! you when people get scared you can ex
! pect them to DO almost anything. a
great many believe the police placed
the bombs in Lingg's cell, and this be
: lief will make them all the more cage
: to sign the petition. BY God! dom
believe one Of them win be hung, but
= all will go down to the penitentaEy
: 1t is q shame that when such men art
found guilty, there should be SO many
towards to pray for Communication O
their sentence
i, EXTRA PRECAUTIONS.
a Mayor Roche and Sheriff Matsol
: spent some considerable time last even
y ing examining the windows and door
. of the criminal court building. and as
result of their investigation the 0utsid
iron shutters were ordered closed an
barred. The heavy iron doors at th
Michigan street entrance were close
and securely fastened with ShackleE
= and every precaution taken to preclud
h. the possibility of an outside attach
Peremptory orders we're given to allol
= no one inside the building eXceptin
:, upon a written order issued by tn
sheriff. The police guard was n
doubled and each watch extended thre
hours.
D. THREATENnEa EPIsTLEs.
SPRTEeFIELp. Ill, November T.
tGoYernor Oglesby said regarding tt
threatening epist1es which he has n
ceiyed from anarchists sympathizeH
aaSs SIT is quite true that / have receive
"a threatening communications, but the
have never alarmed me. Most Of the
g have been received since the Tefus
a Of the supreme court OF the Units
=: have usually consisted of unsign.
% kilograms and postal cards with 0
casi0naIIy q sealed letter. do n
think I have received more than half
. dozen threatening communications
as together"
-. LTNGGs' BONES EXPLODED.
* Sheriff MatsoTl this morning sa
Is that there was no doubt as to the u
e ture of he stuff found In Linge
"a bombs. That part OF the filing b;
been taken of couple of the pipes al
sc. all - - 49, :,
amnesty people have their tables {
the streets this morning, but the